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Article 6.0 [Last Modified: 1/1/2003]

ARTICLE VI

Section 13.0 0 [Last Modified: 1/1/2003]

SEC. 13. In case the office of any judge of the Court of Appeals, or justice of the Supreme Court, shall become vacant before the expiration of the regular term for which he was elected, the vacancy may be filled by appointment by the Governor, until it shall be supplied at the next general election of judges, when it shall be filled by election for the residue of the unexpired term.

SEC. 13. Justices of the Supreme Court shall be chosen by the electors of their respective Judicial Districts. Judges of all the courts mentioned in the last preceding section shall be chosen by the electors of the cities respectively in which the said courts are instituted. The official terms of the said Justices and Judges who shall be elected after the adoption of this article shall be fourteen years from and including the first day of January next after their election. But no person shall hold the office of Justice or Judge of any court longer than until and including the last day of December next after he shall be seventy years of age.

SEC. 13. Justices of the Supreme Court shall be chosen by the electors of their respective judicial districts. Judges of all courts mentioned in the last preceding section shall be chosen by the electors of the cities respectively in which said courts are instituted. The official terms of the said Justices and Judges who shall be elected after the adoption of this article, shall be fourteen years from and including the first day of January next after their election. But no person shall hold the office of Justice or Judge of any court longer than until and including the last day of December next, after he shall be seventy years of age. The compensation of' every Judge of the Court of Appeals and of every Justice of the Supreme Court, whose term of office shall be abridged pursuant to this provision, and who shall have served as such Judge or Justice ten years or more, shall be continued during the remainder of the term for which he was elected.